Madeleine McCann: ‘Shannon Matthews’ Cops’ Join The New Hunt

MADELEINE McCann – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – The Daily Star reports that the West Yorkshire Police Homicide and Major Enquiries Team (HEMET) aka HELMET, will investigate the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

You might have heard of them before. As the Star notes, these are the “Shannon cops”. This is the police team who found Shannon Matthews.

Only, it wasn’t them that found Shannon Matthews. The 300 local police looking for the missing child found Shannon Matthews because a neighbour Michael Donovan aka Paul Drake, heard child footsteps in his flat in Lidgate Gardens and knew he had no children.

Madeleine’s doctor parents Kate and Gerry, both 41, are said to be “delighted’’ at the move. It follows a meeting with Home Secretary Alan Johnson at which they begged him to relaunch the official search for their daughter.

And then this bit of news:

A source told the Daily Star: “It’s hoped we can clear the decks and start over again.”

Madeleine McCann is missing – and after a voracious media feeding frenzy, lots and lot of news and hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on the search for her, there is no sign of the missing child. There are no suspects.

Get the Pakistani Police in with Greater Manchester, the French and the Spanish Police. What a result they’ve had this week!

lyn

These cops were quick off the mark in finding Shannon with a bit of help which was amazing from Paul Drake. Would Shannon have been found if it were not for him. Maybe there is some more information we don’t know about re Madeleine going missing.

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she is not alive

chenier

Actually, Anorka, there’s always hope!

Admittedly the constraints of blogging do not allow me to convey that with quite the flair that Viggo Mortensen managed, but then I haven’t got a magic sword, a bloody big horse and several $billions for the CGI. Not to mention the gay wizard…

Paul, Leicestershire

Was experience uncovering a faked abduction part of the job description?